Janice Chiang
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DC super hero girls (Shea Fontana) volume 1
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English
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"Super Hero Girls features DC Comics' most powerful and diverse line-up of female characters as relatable teens, playing out across multiple entertainment content platforms and product categories to create an immersive world. Icons including Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Batgirl, Harley Quinn, Bumble Bee, Poison Ivy, Katana and many more make their unprecedented teenaged introduction, as each character has her own storyline that explores what teen life...
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"Earth's new Green Lantern, Jessica Cruz, learns that she must report to Oa and introduce herself to the Green Lantern Corps--as if learning new powers and being the new girl at Super Hero High weren't enough. Luckily, some of her new friends are willing to accompany Jessica. But when they arrive, instead of the Green Lantern Corps they find General Zod, Faora and Non"--Publisher marketing.
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DC super hero girls (Shea Fontana) volume 10
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English
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Batgirl, Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Green Lantern, Bumblebee, and Zatanna are continually late to class because of their crime-fighting, so they must join after-school clubs to avoid being suspended and revealing their secret identities.
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DC super hero girls (Shea Fontana) volume 11
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English
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"It's science fair time at Metropolis High, and the DC Super Hero Girls are very excited--except for Zee Zatara. Magic is her life, and science seems so dull in comparison. When she tries to help her friends with their projects, things keep going wrong. Is her magic causing the science to go haywire? Actually, science is just like being part of a superhero team: when you combine the right ingredients, it's magic."-- Provided by publisher.
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[2022]
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English
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"Tells the true story of Iva Toguri, a Japanese American woman who was visiting relatives in Tokyo shortly before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Trapped in Japan, Iva was pressed to renounce her American citizenship, but refused. As war raged across the Pacific, she took a job with Radio Tokyo-where she was forced to host "Zero Hour," a propaganda show aimed at demoralizing American troops-in the role of Tokyo Rose, the "Siren of the Pacific.""-- Publisher's...
6) Powerless
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DC super hero girls (Shea Fontana) volume 10
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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When the electric grid and Gotham's cloud computing technology get knocked out on the same night, the Metropolis High Hamsters must figure out how to deal with the city's loss of power.
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"Cassandra Cain, teenage assassin, isn't exactly Batgirl material...yet. Will she step out of the shadows and overcome her greatest obstacle--that voice inside her head telling her she can never be a hero? Lucky for Cass, she won't have to defy her destiny alone. With the help of her new mentors, noodle shop owner Jackie Fujikawa Yoneyama and a librarian named Barbara Gordon, she'll attempt to answer this question the only way she knows how: learning...
9) Midterms
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DC super hero girls (Shea Fontana) volume 10
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Karen Beecher, Lois Lane, and Harleen Quinzel are the top three students on the leaderboard at Metropolis High, and the upcoming midterms will determine who is the best in the class, but each girl must first face trials from their real lives.
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Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage - Young Adults
Back to School - Young Adult
Maverick Graphic Novels 2024 (Gr. 6-12)
Back to School - Young Adult
Maverick Graphic Novels 2024 (Gr. 6-12)
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"Marcus Sun moves around a lot because his adoptive parents are freelance henchpeople, so this month he finds himself as the new kid at Gotham City High School, where a mysterious man with pig features asks Marcus to walk through a water curtain to reveal his real self: someone who has adventured through The Journey to the West, can transform into 72 different formations, can clone himself using his hairs, and is called the Monkey Prince"-- Provided...
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DC super hero girls (Shea Fontana) volume 5
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[2018]
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English
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Wonder Woman, Harley Quinn, Katana, Bumblebee, Supergirl, and Batgirl rush to finish their comic about themselves for June Moone's art class, but when Harley Quinn spills Ms. Moone's magic paint on their pages, their art comes to life-and these super dopplegängers are super-villains! As the dastardly doodles cause chaos in Metropolis, Ms. Moone discovers this havoc is a result of her pilfered potions and her out-of-control anger transforms her into...
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2024.
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English
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"The Killing Hole is a Gen X coming-of-age drama turned upside-down. Set in 1979 in an isolated planned community of Northern Virginia, 14-year-old Stewart is a lonely and neglected child of divorce. Living in a shabby apartment with his alcoholic working mother (and always absent older sister), he languishes in school, side-stepping bullies and cliques. He notices a new kid at school, Peter, who has it even worse than he does, and the two begin to...
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DC super hero girls (Shea Fontana) volume 4
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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After a time-travel mishap, Harley Quinn, Wonder Woman, Batgirl, and all their friends find themselves stranded in prehistory with some not-so-friendly dinosaurs.
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DC super hero girls (Shea Fontana) volume 3
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Super Hero High is on summer break, so Wonder Woman heads to Mount Olympus to visit her dad, Zeus. But when her jealous brother Ares shows up, the family reunion turns into a family feud, leading Ares to declare war on Metropolis.
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2021.
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English
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In one of the darkest periods in history, a young Jewish boy struggles to survive as he escapes the ghetto and finds a group of resistance fighters in the forests of Poland. Does he have what it takes to survive the Nazis--and fight back?
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DC super hero girls (Shea Fontana) volume 2
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2016.
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English
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"While studying 'The Odyssey' for Professor Etrigan's Super Hero High class, these super-powered students embark on a journey where they face off with a cyclops, seek help from a witch, evade sirens, and travel to the underworld! Will they rescue their teacher, escape from the villainous Trigon, and recover Batgirl's Batplane? Or will their quest be an epic fail?"--Back cover.
18) Spirit World
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2024.
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English
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Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage - Young Adults
Pride Month - Young Adults
Pride Month - Young Adults
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"Spirit World stars Xanthe, a nonbinary Chinese hero with the ability to travel in and out of the Spirit World--the realm of the dead, and that of the living. Xanthe possesses the ability to burn items folded from ceremonial joss paper and turn them into real objects that can be used in the physical world. Their superpower is based on the East Asian custom of burning joss paper at gravesites to send resources to ancestors in the spirit world. Their...
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Former NYPD detective Sam Hill knows what happens when you cross the mob. He knows the risks, danger and thrill - and, most importantly, how to deal with the criminal underworld. So when he's hired by the gorgeous widow of a murdered millionaire, he'll have to play every angle to make sure he doesn't end up at the bottom of the Hudson River.
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Riverdale volume 3
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English
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From Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and the writers of the new CW series Riverdale, this brand new, ongoing comic series offers a bold, subversive take on Archie, Betty, Veronica, Josie & the Pussycats and their friends, exploring small-town life and the darkness bubbling beneath Riverdale's wholesome façade, as based on the hit new CW TV series Riverdale.